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Technical Topics: Virtual Reality — MA4107.02

Spring 2019
Instructor: Colleen Murphy
Credits: 2
This seven-week course is designed to demonstrate the emerging connection between film and virtual reality within the context of installation art. The focus will be split between experimentation with virtual reality equipment and advanced software workflows using Premiere and After Effects. Students are encouraged to apply their other areas of interest, such as animation, sound
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Tell the World: Graphic Design for Creative Practice — DA2112.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Nancy Nowacek
Credits: 4
The goal of this course is to provide students who are new to the principles of visual design with the practical knowledge, critical skills and confidence to effectively express their ideas graphically. This course will supply an overview of the fundamentals used to convey an idea, communicate a message and influence an experience. Topics covered in the course include:
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Ten Decades, Ten Exhibitions: Art Narratives of the Twentieth Century — CUR2226.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 4
This introductory course considers exhibitions that have shaped scholarly and popular conceptions of twentieth-century Western art history. Readings, films, discussions and interactive lectures address styles and ideas within the context of the art spectacle or “show.” Starting with the Armory Show of 1913, we examine art-world machinations as part of economic, political and
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Ten Decades, Ten Exhibitions: Popular Art Narratives of the Twentieth Century — VA2226.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 4
This introductory course considers modernism and postmodernism through a close examination of exhibitions that shaped scholarly and popular conceptions of twentieth-century art. Starting with the Last Futurist Exhibition of Painting in 1915, readings, films, discussions and interactive lectures will address styles and ideas within the context of the art spectacle or “show.”
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Tessellation — DRW2265.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Credits: 4
This drawing and modeling course is an introduction to tessellation, also known as space filling, or packing. Through drawing exercises on various grids (which also happen to be tessellations) we will learn about edges and vertices, moving to regular, semi-regular, and edge tessellation among others, eventually proceeding from planar tiling to packing in three dimensions.
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Tessellation — DRW2265.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This drawing and modeling course is an introduction to tessellation, also known as space filling, or packing. Through drawing exercises on various grids (which also happen to be tessellations), we will learn about edges and vertices, moving to regular and semi-regular tessellation, and edge tessellation among others, eventually proceeding from planar tiling to packing in three
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Tessellation — DES2102.01) (cancelled 5/2/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to tessellation, also known as space filling, or packing. Through drawing exercises on various grids (which also happen to be tessellations) we will learn about edges and vertices, moving to regular, semi-regular, and edge tessellation among others, eventually proceeding from planar tiling to packing in three dimensions. Tessellation is a spatial
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Tessellation — DES2105.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to tessellation, also known as space filling, or packing. Through drawing exercises on various grids (which also happen to be tessellations) we will learn about edges and vertices, moving to regular, semi-regular, and edge tessellation among others, eventually proceeding from planar tiling to packing in three dimensions. Tessellation is a spatial
Visual Arts

The Albumen Print — PHO4114.02

Spring 2018
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 2
In this 7-week session, students will explore the most widely used process of making photographic prints in the 19th century, the albumen process. Ideally suited for contact printing either glass or paper negatives in sunlight, the albumen print has a glossy surface and rich tonal scale that became very popular for photographers exhibiting their work in the 19th century.
Visual Arts

The Archive in Art — VA4216.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Liz Deschenes
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This seven-week course is an introduction to the archive and how it has been central to artistic production of the 20th and 21st centuries. We will read Walter Benjamins Archive, Archive Fever: Uses of The Document in Contemporary Art, and conclude with The Big Archive. There will be lectures on how the archive exists in specific artists works. Students will be given short
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The Archive in Art — VA2209.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Liz Deschenes
Credits: 2
This seven-week course is an introduction to the archive and how it has been central to artistic production of the 20th and 21st centuries. Though the course is only a brief introduction, there will be an emphasis on how the archive has been utilized by artists to subvert and question conventional notions of the archive and related power structures. Students will be given short
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The Archive in Art — VA4216.02

Spring 2019
Instructor: Liz Deschenes
Credits: 2
This seven-week course is an introduction to the archive and how it has been central to artistic production of the 20th and 21st centuries. We will read Walter Benjamin’s Archive, Archive Fever: Uses of The Document in Contemporary Art, and conclude with The Big Archive. There will be lectures on how the archive exists in specific artists works. Students will be given short
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The Artist as Curator: Exhibition as Medium and the Politics of Display — VA4124.02

Spring 2018
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 2
Artists throughout history have played signal roles in shifting the parameters around and definitions of exhibition making. This course considers the various ways that artists working in and outside conventional structures have shaped art history and radicalized curatorial practice. Readings and assignments will cover artist groups and collaborative networks; artists who create
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The Arts of Spain and the Politics of Cultural Heritage — AH4116.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Razan Francis
Credits: 4
Not long after Muslims had conquered most of the Iberian Peninsula in 711, the Spanish Christians declared their intent to reconquer the land for Christianity. With the fall of Granada in 1492 and the subsequent repression of Jews and Muslims, the reconquest was finally complete. However, the many centuries of coexistence and mutual influence meant that the art and architecture
Visual Arts Society Culture and Thought

The Baroque Imaginary — AH4117.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
The Baroque has fascinated--and incensed--historians, cultural critics, and philosophers from Walter Benjamin and Erwin Panofsky to Gilles Deleuze and Peter Greenaway. Often aligned with an artistic ‘Golden Age’ exemplified by the complex and discomfiting works of Bernini, Rubens, Velázquez, and Vermeer, the Baroque has also been associated with ruinous decadence and excess,
Visual Arts

The Baroque Imaginary — AH4117.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
The concept of the Baroque has long fascinated—and incensed—historians, literary critics, and philosophers. Often aligned with an artistic ‘Golden Age’ exemplified by the complex and discomfiting works of Bernini, Rubens, Velázquez, and Vermeer, the Baroque has also been associated with ruinous decadence and excess, irrationality, preciosity, and effeminacy—rhetorically charged
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The Big Picture: Stewarding Artists' Legacies (FWT Course) — VA4406.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Liz White
Credits: 1
What forces and individuals contribute to shaping an artist’s legacy? What happens to all of the objects, materials, and correspondence that artists create during their lifetime? What is a catalogue raisonné? This one-credit module will introduce students to the nascent field of artist-endowed foundations, and invite the consideration of philosophical and creative questions,
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The Big Picture: Stewarding Artists’ Legacies (FWT Course) — VA4406.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Liz White
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1

What forces and individuals contribute to shaping an artist’s legacy? What happens to all of the objects, materials, and correspondence that artists create during their lifetime? What is a catalogue raisonné? This one-credit remote module will introduce students to legacy work and to the nascent field of artist-endowed foundations, inviting the consideration of philosophical

Visual Arts

The Big Picture: Stewarding Artists’ Legacies (FWT Course) — VA4406.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Liz White
Credits: 1
What forces and individuals contribute to shaping an artist’s legacy? What happens to all of the objects, materials, and correspondence that artists create during their lifetime? What is a catalogue raisonné? This one-credit remote module will introduce students to the nascent field of artist-endowed foundations, and invite the consideration of philosophical and creative
Visual Arts

The Big Picture: Stewarding Artists’ Legacies (FWT Course) — VA4406.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Liz White
Credits: 1
What forces and individuals contribute to shaping an artist’s legacy? What happens to all of the objects, materials, and correspondence that artists create during their lifetime? What is a catalogue raisonné? This one-credit remote module will introduce students to the nascent field of artist-endowed foundations, and invite the consideration of philosophical and creative
Visual Arts

The Big Picture: Stewarding Artists’ Legacies (FWT Course) — VA4406.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Liz White
Credits: 1
What forces and individuals contribute to shaping an artist’s legacy? What happens to all of the objects, materials, and correspondence that artists create during their lifetime? What is a catalogue raisonné? This one-credit remote module will introduce students to the nascent field of artist-endowed foundations, and invite the consideration of philosophical and creative
Visual Arts